COPY, in a law sense, signifies the transcript of any original writing, as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, &c. A common deed cannot be proved by a copy or counterpart, where the original may be procured. But if the deed be in rolled, certifying an attested copy is proof of the inrollment, and such copy may be given in evidence.
Cory is also used for the imitation of an original work, more particularly in paint ing, draught, figure, &c.
Copy, among printers, denotes the ma- . nuscript, or original of a book, given to be printed.
Con: is used for an imitation of any original work, particularly a painting, drawing, figure, &c. Of late years many methods have been invented for taking copies of letters, or other MS. for the convenience of merchants, &c. Mr. Watt, of Birmingham, obtained a patent for a copying machine, which acts as a rolling press : the ink made use of is of a particular quality, which prevents its drying too quickly, and the paper on which the copy is to be taken is unsized, and in other respects prepared for the purpose. There have been other con trivances of polygraphs, for making two or more copies at the same time of any writing. But the most simple method, where the practice is not much called for, consists in putting a little sugar in com mon writing ink, and with this the wri ting is made on common paper; and when a copy is required, unsized paper is talc en, and lightly moistened with a sponge. The wet paper is then applied to the writing, and a flat iron of a moderate beat being lightly passed over the unsiz ed paper, the copy is immediately pro duced. The use of the sugar is to preven the ink from drying too soon.
Cory-hold, a tenure, for which a tenant has nothing to shew but the copy of the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court.
The customs of manors differ as much as the humour and temper of the respec tive ancientlorcls ; so a copyholder, by custom, may be tenant in fee-simple, in fee-tail, fbr life, by the courtesy, in dower, I for years, at sufferance, or on condition ; subject, however, to be deprived of these estates upon the concurrence of those cir cumstances, which' the will of the lords, l promulged by immemorial custom, bath declared to be a forfeiture or absolute de termination of those interests ; as in some manors the want of issue, in others the want of issue male, in others the cutting down timber, in others the non-payment of rent or fine. Yet none of these interests amount to freehold; for the freehold of the whole manor abides always with the lord only, who hath granted out the use of oc cupation, but not the corporeal seizin, or true possession of certain parts or parcels thereof, to these his customary tenants at will.
If a person would' devise a copyhold estate, he cannot do it by his will, hut he must surrender to the use of his last will and testament, and in his will declare his intent ; and here the lands do not pass by the will, but by the surrender thus made.
Copyhold inheritances have no gollate ral qualities, which do not concern the descent, as to make them assets to.bind the heir, or whereof the wife may be en dowed, &c. They are not extendible in
execution, but are within the acts against bankrupts, and the statutes of limitation.
Corr-holder, one who is admitted tenant of lands, or tenements within a manor, which, time out of mind, by use and cus tom of the manor, have been demisable, and demised to such as will take them in fee-simple, or fee-tail, for life, years, or at will, according to the custom of the manor by copy of court-roll. But is generally where the tenant has such estate either in fee or for three lives.
Corr-right, the right which an author may be supposed to have in his own ori ginal literary compositions ; so that no other person, without his leave, may pub lish or make profit of the copies. When a man, by the exertion of his rational pow ers, has produced an original work, he has clearly a right to dispose of that iden tical work as he pleases ; and any attempt to take it from him, or vary the disposi tion he has made of it, is an invasion of his right of property. Now the identity of a literary composition consists entirely in the sentiment and the language ; the same conceptions, clothed in the same words, must necessarily be the same com position : and whatever method be taken of conveying that composition to the ear, or to the eye of anotht r, by recital, by writing, or by printing, in any number of copies, or at any period of time, it is al ways the identical work of the author which is so conveyed : and no other man (it bath been thought) can have a right to convey or transfer it, without his consent either tacitly or expressly given. This consent may, perhaps, be tacitly given, when an author permits his work to be published without any reserve of right, and without stamping on it any marks of ownership ; it is then a present to the public, like the building of a church, or the laying out a new highway : but in case of a bargain for a single impression, or a total sale or gift of the copy-right ; in the one case the reversion hath been thought to continue in the original pro prietor; in the other, the whole proper ty, with its exclusive rights, to be perpe tually transferred to the grantee. On the other hand it is urged, that though the exclusive right of the manuscript, and all which it contains, belongs undoubtedly to the owner before it is printed or pub lished, yet from the instant of publication the exclusive right of an author, or his assigns, to the sole communication of his ideas, immediately vanishes and evapo rates, as being a right of too subtle and unsubstantial a .nature to become the subject of property at the common law, and only capable of being guarded by posi tive statute and special provisions of the magistrate.
COR Caroli, in astronomy, an extra constellated star in the northern hemi sphere, situated between the Coma Bere nices and Ursa Major, so called by Dr. Halley in honour of King Charles.
Con Hydra., a fixed star of the first magnitude, in the constellation of Hy dra.
Con Leonia, _ or Regulus, in astronomy, a fixed star of the first magnitude; in the constellation Leo.